If I, as a white man, am to be expected to pay reparations because of the perceived crimes of my ancestors, then logically speaking, I am due credit for the progress and advancement of my ancestors as well.
If black people, as apparent descendants of African slaves, are due to receive reparations for the suffering of those ancestors, then they are logically due to pay the penalty for the enslavement of rival African tribes by their ancestors.
So when do I receive my credit for the advancement of Western Civ? When do the descendants blacks receive their penalty for enslaving their fellow Africans?
Yes, African slaves were sold to Europeans by other Africans (and also by Arabs). White Europeans did not sail to Africa and round up free Africans and put them on slavery ships. That would require fighting battles against large native forces. Even with more modern weapons than the natives had, that didn’t always go so well. Research Isandlwana in 1879. Why fight a war to gather African slaves when you can just buy them from African (and Arab) slavers? So that’s what they did. This is no argument in favor of slavery. This is simply logical. If white people of today are to be punished for their ancestors owning slaves for a hundred years, then blacks should be punished for owning slaves for a thousand years prior.
No people owned slaves longer than the Arabs or Africans. They invented slavery. Perfected it. The white man, when he joined the game, found it so abhorrent that he killed thousands of his own in order to end it.
Slavery is still widely practiced in every culture today, except for the white culture.
The very first slave owner in America was a black man who owned another black. At least 3,000 blacks owned black slaves about the time of the Uncivil War. Will blacks sue other blacks for perorations? And what about my white ancestor who died fighting almost alongside black union soldiers? Do blacks owe me something for my ancestor who died trying to free their ancestors?
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